Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

It’s widely believed that Prohibition caused an increase in violent crime (the text at the beginning of The Untouchables says this), but looking at state-level variation in when alcohol was banned and re-legalized suggests that it didn’t. https://t.co/8KnAx34N05 https://t.co/gQcb6S9vmQ — PolitiTweet.org

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Strongly recommend this book, it covers the complicated politics and tradeoffs that were in play. A huge driver of re-legalization was the perception that it would create a tax revenue windfall. https://t.co/FflqhOeNlb — PolitiTweet.org

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